Andreas Otto wrote:

07741131644/./aotto/.REPOSITORY/TacClient/etc/help/contents/aruseruntitled00000368.htm,v

Symptom of tar version 1.13.  Bad, very bad.
You need tar.1.13.19 at least, or better yet 1.13.25.
Get it from:

ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.13.25.tar.gz

You can fix your indexes by stripping off the leading digits, up to
the first dot:

(untested, use at your own risk)

gunzip *.gz
perl -i.bak -e 's!^\d+/\.!!' *
gzip *
rm *.bak.gz   # after verification of the results :-)


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